Distance Learning Programme:

The distance learning programme has picked up in the New

Year with a TMA2 due on the 13th January:

Module 3.3 continues from last year and module 3.4 starts on

18 March 2013. This brings the programme to an end for the

2011 Fellows.

New modules (still to be decided) will be introduced on the 29

April 2013, which the 2012 Fellows will continue with as well

as the new intake of Fellows for 2013.

2011 , 2012 & 2013

Fellows

Distance learning programme

We welcome the 2013 Fellows into the SAFRI Family

We have 16 new Fellows who will be joining SAFRI at the Feb/March 2013 meeting.

Once again we are thrilled to have representatives from Ethiopia, Rwanda, Lesotho, Uganda,

Sudan, Kenya, Botswana and South Africa.

We look forward to meeting the following Fellows and although the names are not familiar to

us now we will soon learn their preferred names or nicknames, as we get to know each of them

more personally.

2013 Fellows:

Mmapula Dube Milly Morkel

Ruebecca Ebrahim Joanne Naidoo

Bernhard Gaede Champion Nyoni

Fasika Gebrekirkos Anoud Omer

Karl Klusmann Everlyne Rotich

Ronel Maart Enoch Sepako

Kaitesi Mukara Klaus von Pressentin

Takaedza Munangatire Jane Namatovu

WELCOME TO 2013 FELLOWS

Jan 2013

Issue 3

Distance Learning 1

New 2013 Fellows 1

SAFRI Session 1 & 3 2

SAAHE 2013 2

SAFRI News Items 3

SAFRI News Items 4

SAFRI News Items 5

SAFRI contact details 6

Inside this issue:

Special points of

interest:

Distance Learning

program continues

New SAFRI Fellows

SAAHE 2013

SAFRI Fellows

awards at publica-

tions

Important news

items from Fellows

past and present

SAFRI NEWSLETTER - JAN. 2013

The SAAHE Conference in 2013 hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal will take place

from the 27—29 June 2013 in the K-RITH Building, at the Nelson R Mandela School of

Medicine.

The theme for this conference is “Information to Transformation”

Although papers on all aspects of Health Professions Education are welcome, they are keen to

receive papers aligned with this theme.

More information on the conference: http://www.saahe2013.ukzn.ac.za

Abstracts can be submitted at:

http://www.ukznconferencing.co.za/ei/cm.esp?id=16&pageid=_3NXOS7TZQ

Due date for Abstracts: 14 February 2013

A special highlight at SAAHE 2013 is the collaboration with the Sub-Saharan African

FAIMER Regional Institute (SAFRI). SAFRI will be celebrating its 5th year of building

medical education and research capacity in Africa. This momentous occasion will be cele-

brated at the conference.

2012 Fellows - Please work on those projects and lets make SAAHE 2013 a very memorable

one with great Presentations and Posters!

SAAHE - 2013 (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

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Dr. Veena Singaram

(2008 SAFRI Fellow)

Chairperson of SAAHE

Organising Committee

College of Health Sciences

SAFRI - 2013 (Session 1 and 3 in Cape Town)

SAFRI Session 1: 27 February to 5 March

26 February: Faculty preparation day and the 2013 Fellows arrive during the course of the day.

27 Feb - 2 March: Full day sessions with lots of action and teamwork, 2012 Fellows arrive on the 2nd March.

3 March: Combined sessions with both 2012 and 2013 Fellows

4 March: POSTER DAY 2012 Fellows present their posters and 2013 Fellows look and learn!

5 March: 2012 and 2013 Fellows have separate sessions.

6 March: 2013 Fellows leave

7 March: 2012 Fellows have one last session day

8 March: 2012 Fellows leave

We look forward to welcoming the new 2013 Fellows to the SAFRI Family on the 27 February and hope that

the time together of working, learning and getting to know one another will be a truly memorable one!

Session 1 and 3 will take place in Cape Town at the Newlands Southern Sun Hotel, where the Faculty and Fellows will be ac-

commodated as well as attend the sessions in the hotel’s superb Conference facilities.

Poster Day I am sure will be the highlight for all of you as we watch with interest as the projects and post-

ers are presented in preparation for the upcoming SAAHE Conference in June 2013

Zerihun Gebremichael (SAFRI 2012 Fellow) Ethiopia

Zerihun has recently been promoted to the Dean of College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa

University in Ethiopia.

The SAFRI family congratulates him and wishes him every success in this new and challenging position.

Well done Zerihun!

Page 3 SAFRI Newsletter I ssue 3

SAFRI NEWS ITEMS: SAFRI is proud to include the following important news items received from Faculty and Fellows.

Please keep your news items coming in, so they can be include in our Newsletters.

Promotions:

Kemi Ogah (SAFRI 2011 Fellow) Tanzania

Kemi has recently been promoted to the position of Associate Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences,

KIU Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania campus.

Well done Kemi you have made SAFRI proud and we wish you every success in your new position and

year ahead!

Juanita Bezuidenhout (SAFRI Faculty)

Juanita has been a founding member of SAFRI and part of the Faculty since 2007.

She was recently promoted as a Full Professor in Anatomical Pathology.

Congratulations Juanita, SAFRI is proud of you and all the work you do to keep SAFRI on track and the

Fellows motivated to strive for new heights, which you set by example.

Stephen E. Mshana (SAFRI 2011 Fellow) Tanzania

Stephen was promoted from a Senior Lecturer to an Associate Professor in the Microbiol-

ogy/Immunology Department, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania

Well done Stephen SAFRI is proud of you!

Awards: Conran Joseph (SAFRI 2012 Fellow) South Africa

In 2012 Conran received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship to pursue his PhD at Karolinska Institute in

Stockholm Sweden. Congratulations Conran this is an opportunity of a life time and we wish you every

success with your PhD.

Conran has continued working on his SAFRI Project which he will present when he returns to join the

SAFRI programme in 2014

Corné Postma (SAFRI 2011 Fellow) South Africa

Corné recently received an Education Innovation Award from the University of Pretoria for his project,

which attempts to develop clinical reasoning in dental students.

Title: “Evaluating the impact of adjunctive integrated case-based dental training on clinical reasoning

in a discipline-based training environment”

Hester Julie (SAFRI 2010 Fellow) South Africa

Hester has had 3 Peer-reviewed Conference Outputs: Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Conference of

the School of Nursing, University of the Western Cape: Nursing scholarship contributions towards meeting health

-related Millennium Development Goals.

1. Kordom A. & Julie H: “Belhar youth mentoring programme: We care enough to listen”

2. Julie H. “Mainstreaming service-learning in the School of Nursing: identifying institutional challenges”

3. Basson M. & Julie H. “Professional nurses attitudes and perceptions towards the mentally ill in an asso-

ciated psychiatric hospital”

Congratulations Hester! Great example for the nursing profession.

Ben van Heerden (SAFRI Faculty) South Africa

Ben is a founding member of SAFRI and a great teacher. Ben has recently been involved in the following publica-

tions. The names in bold are all SAFRI members;

S.van Schalkwyk, J. Bezuidenhout, VC Burch, M. Clarke, H. Conradie, B. van Heerden & M de Villiers.

Developing an educational research framework for evaluating rural training of health professionals: A case for

innovation. Medical Teacher 2012;34:1064-1069.

B. van Heerden. Effectively addressing the health needs of South Africa’s population: The role of health professions

education in the 21st Century. S Afr Med J 2013;103(1):21-22.

Michael Rowe (SAFRI 2010 Fellow) South Africa

Michael recently receive the Dean’s Merit Award for Excellence in teaching and learning in the Faculty

of Community and Health Sciences.

Michael has also served on the SAFRI Faculty where he has been able to put his great teaching skills to

work.

Gonzaga Mubuuke (SAFRI 2009 Fellow) Uganda

Mubuuke recently completed his Masters Degree in Health Professions Education (MHPE) at Stellen-

bosch University in South Africa, graduating in December 2012.

“The SAFRI fellowship definitely gave me a basis to pursue the MHPE at Stellenbosch. I now view my-

self as an accomplished health professional educator and the skills acquired from this degree will guide

me to make a contribution to health professions education in Africa”

New qualification

Publications and Presentations:

Sindy Mthembu (SAFRI 2010 Fellow) South Africa

Sindy has also served on the SAFRI Faculty since graduating as a Fellow and remained a valuable member of SAFRI.

She had the following publications in 2012:

Mhlaba, GT & Mthembu S. (2012). Clinical mentoring: the views of nursing students and clinical mentors. Journal

of Community Health Sciences, 7 (2)

A book: Vasuthevan, S. & Mthembu, S. (2012). De Haan’s Health of Southern Africa. 10th Edition Juta, Cape Town

Marietjie van Rooyen (SAFRI Faculty) & Angelika Reinbrech-Schutte (SAFRI 2010)

Marietjie and Angelika won an Ultimate Laureate award for education innovation at the

University of Pretoria in 2012.

Congratulations to both of you!!

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Awards contd.

Medical School outreach: Hoffie Conradie (SAFRI 2010 Fellow) South Africa

An article recently appeared in the Guardian concerning a unique programme that has been initiated by the Univer-

sity of Stellenbosch Medical School to combat the shortage of rural doctors by sending final-year students to live

and work in the rural district of Worcester in the Western Cape.

Hoffie was a former rural GP and is now the Director of the University of Stellenbosch’s year-old Ukwanda rural

clinical school.

“We are trying to do something about the fact that 43% of South Africans live in rural areas but only 12% of doc-

tors work there”.

This medical school initiative is the first in Africa to address the continent’s chronic shortage of rural doctors by

sending students to spend their final year among the vineyard workers and fruit-pickers of the Western Cape.

Website: http:www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/Jan/09/south-african-medical-school-rural-

doctors

Great work Hoffie! This is an amazing example for other medical schools to follow.

John Norcini visit: John Norcini (FAIMER)

Assessment Workshops were run on the 1st October at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and on the 2nd October 2012

at the University of Stellenbosch. These workshops were co-hosted by Stellenbosch University, SAFRI and SAAHE and presented by John

Norcini.

The photo is of some SAFRI members, who were attendees at the workshop at the

University of Stellenbosch.

Thank you Juanita for organizing these very worthwhile workshops!

Accreditation of AJHPE Journal The African journal of Health Professions Education is now accredited in South Africa.

This journal originated in SAFRI and is now a subsidy-bearing journal in South Africa so there are rewards for South African

academics who publish in it.

SAFRI Newsletter I ssue 3 Page 5

Postgraduate diploma in medical education:

Milly Kabanga (SAFRI 2011 Fellow) Uganda

Following on from Milly’s SAFRI project, she has become involved in the establishing of a post graduate

programme for health professions. This nine-month programme has been approved and commences in Au-

gust 2013. This great achievement will address the shortage of medical educators in health training institu-

tions in Uganda. Well done Milly!!

Health professions education training:

Midion Chidzonga (SAFRI 2011 Fellow) Zimbabwe

Midion recently completed a 1-year distance learning post-graduate diploma in Health Professions Educa-

tion at UCT. The course has motivated and inspired him to develop a Dept. of Health Professions Education

at the University of Zimbabwe, where he would like to run a similar course, which would improve the cur-

rent teaching skills of the health professionals at the University of Zimbabwe. Midion has enrolled to do a

2-year M.Phil in Health Sciences Education through the University of Stellenbosch in 2013 to further im-

prove his own skills, and this is over and above his responsibilities as a Dean!!

SAFRI

Dept. of Medicine

University of Cape Town

Anzio Rd

Observatory 7925

Phone: (021)534 8363

Fax: (021)413 0112

E-mail: dbransby@gmail.com

Website:: http://safri.faimerfri.org

In 2005 the FAIMER programme was expanded to developing coun-

tries by setting up regional institutes, 3 in India, 1 in Brazil and 1 in

South Africa, based on the USA model, but tailored to the unique local

nneds of the host country/region.

The Southern Africa FAIMER Regional Institute (SAFRI) pro-

gramme is presented by the SAFRI voluntary membership association in

Africa in cooperation with FAIMER. It aims to improve the quality

of health care of Southern African communities by improving health

professions education.

To date there are fellows from South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Nige-

ria, Uganda, Zambia, Madagascar, Botswana, Ethiopia, Rwanda and

Tanzania.

SAFRI Newsletter I ssue 3 Page 6

TRIBUTES to ENOCH KWIZERA

Enoch Kwizera (FAIMER Class 2007, SAFRI Faculty (2007—2012)

The passing of Kwizera on 1 February 2013 has deeply saddened

and shocked so many, in both the FAIMER and SAFRI families. He

was very much loved and admired by all.

Many tributes and condolences have been placed on the listserv

from SAFRI and FAIMER members.

I have selected a few of them, which capture the essence of Kwizera

as he is so fondly remembered and acknowledged.

The South African FAIMER fellows and SAFRI community

knew Enoch very well and he was like family and an inspi-

ration to us all. He was a man of many talents and a tre-

mendous asset for his Faculty of Health Sciences at Wal-

ter Sisulu University. Our deepest condolences also to

Marykutty and other friends at WSU. He will be sorely

missed.

I send you very sad news of the passing away, this afternoon of one of us,

Prof Enoch Kwizera, Class 2007. So sad, he was so strong, so full of joy

and so up beat with life and then comes to this! Condolences to all of you

his friends. I am personally shattered, we were together since 1981 and

even when he relocated to South Africa in 1987, we were “together”

Kwizera, as I knew him, was a quiet giant of medical education in Africa.

He was a visionary who came to SA in the worst years of political injus-

tice and paved the way to success for students “no one else wanted to

educate”. My greatest joy is that he lived to see the first years of a new

democracy and emerging equity—education of a high quality for all

South Africans. He inspired me to dream and believe in the future of

Africa. I will miss him when we gather in March..

I’m torn up and I know I’m not alone as all

Fellows who got to know him will attest. His

lessons remain with us and that’s how I will

keep him going in my work. Asante sana Mzee.

Safari nzuri!

It was indeed a privilege to have counted Kwizera as a friend.

A great man; an extraordinary mind; an interesting way with

words and a lovely sense of humour. He was well-loved and

will be sorely missed. Our condolences to his family, friends

and colleagues.